Medtronic's Fraud, Crime and Kickbacks

You probably think that the most criminal and deadly part of the medical industry is big pharma and you are probably thinking right but you may be wrong, Enter the pigs from Medtroncs. Located at 7000 Central Avenue Northeast  Fridley, MN 55432 Medtronic continues to break the law and kill and maim Americans.



Medtronics level of sleaze is huge even by greedy American medical standards.

In 2011 Medtronics was fined $23.5 million for paying illegal kickbacks to physicians who participated in clinical studies and device registries to induce doctors to implant the company's pacemakers and defibrillators. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/12/13/us-medtronic-kickbacks-idUSTRE7BC2GV20111213

(Reuters) - Medtronic Inc has agreed to pay $23.5 million to settle allegations that it paid kickbacks to doctors to encourage them to use its pacemakers and defibrillators

 If you are a heart patient and your doctor uses Medtronics products your doctor should be executed  along with executives at Medtronics. Luckily for them they live in the USA where fraudsters are rewarded. If they were in China they'd be killed. China has the right idea.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203430404577095261065225318.html

This is Marshall Stanton, vp of clinical research and reimbursement for the Medtronic cardiac and vascular group. He has a lot of blood on his hands.Wouldn't it be satisfying to walk up to a weasel slime ball like him and break every bone in his ugly corporate pig face? I hope somebody does.

http://www.pharmalot.com/2011/12/medtronic-pays-235m-to-settle-kickback-charges/

Medtronics also sold biliary stents and told doctors that they were suitable for cardiac use. They lied and patients died.



Medtronics is like one of those criminals you hear about who just can't seem to stop committing crimes. Keeping with their criminal pedigree, Medtronics fraudulently sold the deadly Infuse bone morphogenic protein  for off label uses in spite of numerous warnings from the FDA. It gets worse. During clinical trials for Infuse, Medtronics bribed 100 participating doctors and orthopedic practices to lie to the FDA about the safety and efficacy of Infuse.

Somethings put me at a loss for words.  Medtronic CEO and Chairman Omar Ishrak's company was ranked as America's 50th-best corporate citizen this week by Corporate Responsibility magazine. (Courtesy of Medtronic)

 The corporate medical world is so far beyond corrupt that it boggles the mind. Medtronics is a corporate gangster responsible for more death, injury and death than the Mafia and the KKK combined. The Mafia has more honor and Medtronics is on a par with the KKK.

Omar Ishrak replaced these two CEO gangsters at Medtronics.

Criminal & former Medtoonic CEO Arthur Collins Jr

Another Criminal former Medtronic CEO Bill Hawkins

 I don't have the full story on Ishrak yet but if he's anything like Bill Hawkins or Arthur Collins Jr or most medical industry CEOs he's probably an amoral thug who needs to be arrested, tried and executed China style.

In a related story... Kyphoplasty Fraud at 14 Hospitals
Fourteen hospitals in seven states have settled False Claims Act cases alleging they submitted false kyphoplasty claims to Medicare. Medtronic, which makes the kyphoplasty spinal surgery equipment in question, previously paid $75 million to settle their part of the kickback and billing scheme.  Hospitals have now paid $40 million to clean up their side of the street.

Medtronic has been caught and fined at least 4 times for massive criminal behavior and still nobody goes to jail! The filthy rich are above the law. Should they be executed China or bin Laden style? Maybe it is time for some do it yourself justice?


 
Disclaimer: In these politically correct times some people can say somethings and others cannot. The purpose of this article is not to encourage violence towards anyone or any group of people. This article is meant to point out the hypocrisy and double standards that exist in our criminal justice system when compared to a country like China that has a long history of human rights violations.

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Failure To Report Infuse Bone Graft Complications

In June 2011, a study published in The Spine Journal disclosed that Medtronic-paid researchers had failed to report serious complications from Infuse, including cancer, sterility in men, infections, bone dissolution and worsened back and leg pain. The article said these complications occurred in 10 to 50 percent of patients who got the product in 13 Medtronic-funded clinical trials conducted between 2000 and 2010. The Spine Journal review also examined payment data from Medtronic to the doctors who co-authored the Infuse studies, and found that the median amount the company paid to doctors was at least $12 million to $16 million per study.